Monday, October 12, 2009

The Benefits Of Gastric Bypass For Morbidly Obese Individuals

By Bart Icles

For any one who is morbidly obese and suffering from the many life-threatening health risk that goes with it may have undergone in the past various yet ineffective ways and means to address it must now seriously look into undergoing a drastic and life-altering medical procedure termed Gastric Bypass surgery. Although condoned by many to be as a means that affords more negative effects than positive ones, this procedure seems to be the only hope for some who have no other choice but to undertake it.

The condition of morbid obesity is getting more and more present in our society as people are turning to unhealthy eating habits and living in a very stressful world. Added to this is the inability of some people to curb their rampaging appetites for rich and cholesterol-laced food and put their foot down and face the reality of their grave situation and do the necessary actions to help each other or one's self improve or treat the problem in a simple way. Others who don't fall under this category may have just simply inherited bad genes from their parents, as well as emulated some of their bad practices when it comes to having a healthy eating habit and exercise regimen that would have at least put the disease to a slow progression, if not to a complete grinding halt.

Being obese practically means that your current weight is beyond the normal standards for your physical make up and attributes. In measuring your body mass index or BMI, it means that your bodily fats are over the set limit and overwhelming your lean body mass to a great degree. For a person in this category, especially those in the middle age bracket, being saddled with this condition can bring about many serious health problems directly affecting the heart and thus reverberate to the other important bodily functions.

A gastric bypass procedure is done with first dividing the stomach into two portions: a small upper pouch and a much larger, lower pouch and are then both attached to the small intestine. Doctors have developed many ways to this, thus leading to other GBP terms. Gastric Bypass Surgery aim is to a make a substantial reduction in the capacity of the stomach to hold and digest food, and also thus making the necessary physiological and psychological adjustments in responding to the process of food intake and break down. This results in a marked loss in weight as the intake is now relatively lesser in proportion. There are various complications involved as seen in any surgical procedures, so before any cutting is to be in done, serious consideration should be done by the patient as the process is deemed irreversible.

The procedure has a high success rate and lesser complications compared other Bariatric surgeries. It is important to know that studies have shown that those who have successfully undergone the operation are now living their lives as they never had experienced before and are now free of the many health problems that have been plaguing them in the past.

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